Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-09
HUNG FOB HIS CRIME.

= --AA-1E OIG OF the Brutal 4AuEuaEaE4
Jennie Bowman, Swung Ohin Louisville,
Ky.-HistOry OF the Crime.
LOULsvnI5ss. Ky, July ALBERT Turner,
one Of the negro murderers Of Jennie Bow
man, was swung into eternity from the gal
lows In the county jail yard at 6;32 O'Clock
this morning. He was strangled 70 death,
the body being cut down twenty minutes
after the trap was sprung. Only fifty people
were admitted to the yard, but about 1900
assembled in the vicinity of the place as
early as 4:3O O'Clock. During the prayer
which Immediately preceded the fall Of the
trap, Turner gazed at the crowd about him
uncOncernedly and went 70 his death with
out any evidence Of fear. bis dying state
ment Ii a contradiction of all previous state
ments made by him. He said:
Il hope you viii ali take warning and
know there Is man IN prison who robbed
the street car. 1 want him turned free.
! am going 20 die with an honest heart
and bring no one to the gal
/ lows. 1 am going alone. Free Patterson.
| be was not with me. That is all have got
TO say. am willing 10 die now"
The greatest excitement prevailed here on
| the afternoon of Tuesday, April ?, caused by
/ the report that Jennie Bowman, domestic,
= years OF age, employed by A. y. johnson,
/ at his home IN the best residence portion of
the city, had been assalled and fearfully
beaten by thieves, while attending to her
household duties. The fact that the assault
had been committed IN the bright, open
/ light Of noon, when homes are left unprO-
/ tected5 added to the indignation The girl
was found brutally beaten, bleeding and in
! sensible. On the hOOr was found a heavy
! iron poker covered with hair and blood, it
| having evidently been the weapon used.
Down stairs were evidences OF a fearful
| struggle and the stem Of a broken goblet,
/ which Jennie Bowman had used IN the fight
| for life, was found. On the stairs were
| bloody marks. The next day the victim be-
! came conscious for a few minutes and
! described her assailants, stating that they
/ were two negroes. Friday afternoon Vim.
/ Patterson, desperate negro, was suspected.
/ Late Saturday afternoon Albert Turner,
/ whose face bore wounds evidently made by
| some Jagged instrument, was discovered IN
/ hiding and taken to jail. Several articles
| which had been missed from Mr.. johnson 3
house were also discovered IN his room.
] Upon the sight OF these he confessed his
/ crime and implored the officers to save him
| from the mob. The authorities thought
/ lynching probable and removed the men to
! upon seeing Patterson, declared that he was
his accomplice in the terrible deed. He said
! that If his drawers were examined blood
/ would be found upon them. Patterson was
| stripped and blood was there. Turner and
| Patterson were brought back here on April
q, the authorities at Frankfort refus-
I ing TO keep them any longer. Then
| followed the mob demonstration which ne
]
| the jail Jennie Bowman died on May 8.
] The grand jury met May ID and returned
| true bills against them for the murder. The
/ trial followed and Turner plead guilty. His
| punishment was fixed by the jury as death.
At 1876 O'Clock, Just i've minutes after the
| Indictment was returned, Judge Jackson
| sentenced him to be hung July 1. Patterson
plead not guilty. His case was tried May
| IS. The jury, after being out eleven min
| utes, returned a verdict Of guilty and fixed
/ his punishment at death. The judge sen
fenced him to be hung July l, but his attor-
ney prayed for an appeal, which Is now be-
fore the court OF appeals. A rehearing be
fore that body will be had about September
10. Turner held levee IN the
Jail several days prior to the
hanging, charging curious visitors
to the jail cents for a look of fifteen sec
| come up In regular side-shOW style. He col
lected a considerable sum of money which
| Will be used IN burylng him. On one of
! those days the doomed man was peeEing
through the bars across his window, and
catching sight Of his sister in the crowd, he
said:
'You look here, sister, Iwant big funeral
Friday, and you want to see that there Is no
disappointment about it.
go on, Albert" the woman answered,
''HOw is gwine to get you mp big funeral
when I amt got no mOneyP
| 'LOOk here, woman, If you don't Use
/ gWine TO ha'nt you every night, and all that
knows me and don't tend the funeral
claw, honey, don't talk dat way" broke
/ in an old cOlOred woman who was evidently
very much excited and who had been moving
/ uneasily from side to side
''Yas, woman, Use gWine to come back on
this earth and ha'nt all yOu'se niggers Whai
| don't tend my funeral" AS he delivered
| this sentence the old woman threw up hel
hands and fell backwards IN a fit.